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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin assert inevitably give a false representation of a country because they have been specially selected and taken from context?

2. What does Boorstin claim increased the ease of creation and transmission of several different types of media?

3. When was Charles Lindbergh born?

4. What term refers to that which is not participating readily or actively?

5. What term means to make uniform or similar, as in composition or function?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the "Crime of the Century" affect Lindbergh's celebrity?

2. Who was Charles Lindbergh? What does Boorstin assert of him?

3. How did Charles Lindbergh succumb to celebrity, according to Boorstin?

4. How do the personalities of celebrities evolve, according to Boorstin?

5. What aspects does Boorstin describe of pseudo-events in Chapter 1?

6. How does Boorstin distinguish pseudo-events from propaganda?

7. What has eroded the old heroic form, according to Boorstin?

8. What example does Boorstin offer for "the leak" in Chapter 1 - Section IV?

9. How does Boorstin define "celebrity"?

10. How did Baedeker expand his publications? What was the "star system"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the effect and influence of the development and publication of digests, such as "Reader's Digest." What does Boorstin conclude the effect was on literature?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the impact of the development of the hotel and motel industry in America. Where and how did Conrad Hilton establish his first hotel?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contract the definitions of Boorstin for "hero" and "celebrity." How do heroes and celebrities differ in their creation and their demise?

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